© Zoe Adjonyoh

Everchanging is a new installation by Paris-based artist Francois Daireaux, exhibiting at Brighton’s Fabrica until August 21 2005.

It is an extension of Point Infini, an installation shown earlier this year at Centre d’art Passerelle, in Brest, France. Using the same elements and organic theme, Everlasting is a re-exploration of that work.

As in Point Infini, the materials used are some 2,000 kilos of silicon rubber. In this installation, the labyrinthine structures of interwoven and tangled silicon tubes are attached to large white blocks.

The installation uses 40 silicon models weighing a total of 2,000 kilos. © Zoe Adjonyoh

Suspended against their temporary canvasses, these long irregular lengths of tubing in assorted colours look as if they are freshly squeezed from a tube of oil paint and are glad to be liberated.

In Point Infini, the same materials, made up of 71 silicon models, were strewn across the floor in a tangled web which visitors were invited to walk through and step over.

Perhaps because of the limited space at Fabrica, this installation only uses 40 silicon models, and against the giant white block, which holds them up, there’s not much room for manoeuvre when viewing them.

Everchanging is the basis for Fabrica’s summer theme of labyrinthine structures and textures. © Zoe Adjonyoh

Nonetheless, the idea that each block creates a visual stop works very well. Each acts as a separate canvas inviting the viewer to pause and reflect on the installations and their resonance. To view and to touch these elaborate structures makes for an interesting exhibition.

Everchanging fits very well as the basis for Fabrica’s themed summer collection and associated talks and events on the theme of labyrinthine structures and textures.

This installation is the artist’s first major UK exhibition, although he has exhibited nationally in Morocco, Italy, Bulgaria and Belgium.

Zoe Adjonyoh is the 24 Hour Museum Renaissance Student Writer in the South East region. Renaissance is the groundbreaking initiative to transform England's regional museums, led by MLA, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.